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funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people

So…I’m guessing you don’t get many visitors in your neck of the woods.

Our anonymous submitter saw this notice up in Canada’s Yukon territory. “I always knew that dogs were a very important in the life of the Yukoners,” she says, by way of explanation…an explanation that, frustratingly, explains next to nothing about these people or their “visitors.”

Also, re: points #4 & 6 — my dog isn’t very good at coming when called, but he happens to love hanging out with “drug-using people.” (Lots of Cheetos crumbs and whatnot to lick off the floor.)

This should have been posted on a Wednesday. A dog note is a sure-fire way to get us through a hump-day. He might not come when he’s called, but give him a knee to wrap his legs around and he’ll try his best to get there.

In fairness, I have received at least ten email forwards in my life which quote that exactly. This one just seems harsh because it doesn’t have any adorable, soft-focus photos of puppies blowing out the candles on their birthday cakes or whatever the fuck.

No, it seems harsh because e-mail forwards (in their usual format) are rants meant to preach to the converted, whereas a posted printout seems intended to actually educate/insult the handful of people who can be bothered to visit crazy cat lady anymore.

If people want to hate on me for having a clean home and well-trained animals, then um, bring on the haters. Nobody has ever complained about my pets. I think the real issue here is that someone feels bad when people come to their home and point out that they are lazy. Even petless folks know the difference between a few days worth of animal hair vs. a few weeks. And a dog who jumps on them and shoves its face in their genitals vs. one who doesn’t. Just saying.

Not even pet-owning people know the difference between a few days worth of hair and a few weeks. My parents always come over to my place and complain about how much hair there is all over the place (really, there’s normally only a few patches on the carpet).

However:
1) They have two pets, we have four (five if you count the guinea pig)
2) They have short-haired animals who shed seasonally, we have a long-haired cat who sheds constantly in clumps plus a dog who sheds whenever she feels like it
3) They have a 2000sqft house, we have a 1000sqft townhouse
4) They have old beaten down carpets, ours are still plush and therefore hair gets stuck to it more easily, rather than floating around the hardwood and into the corners like it does at their house.

I vacuum once a week, I train my pets (the cats as much as I can) and I do my best to keep them out of the way as much as possible and I still get people coming over that complain about them. My SiL complained that my dog sniffed her child’s face… after the kid tripped and fell right on top of my girl. A friend complained because my boy was lying at his feet and watching him. Various visitors have complained because I asked them not to stand in the doorway with the door open because my cat was a stray before I adopted him and he still tries to bolt for open doors on occasion, even if I’ve made it much more rare.

Although there are some parts of this that are over the top (I don’t think of my pets as actual children, even if I think of them as “family”) the sentiments in it come from a place of frustration that a lot of pet owners are familiar with. People come into my home and act like the animals are the guests and should be put away just because they, as guests, want them to be. I’m sympathetic to allergies and workers who are there to do something for me, but for the rest, I’m not. The cats having shed a couple of bits of fur since I vacuumed or the dogs standing still in front of someone looking for pets are not huge issues and if someone comes into my home and tries to act like they are: well, they’re quite welcome not to come back. It is the animals’ home as well and while I’ll demand good behaviour (including not jumping up onto laps unless invited and laying down in one spot and staying there rather than wandering around) I won’t try to make them not be animals. Animals have fur, animals want to say hello and animals are going to watch the new human. If this is a problem, it’s the human that’s the problem, not the animals (obviously not the case if the animals are misbehaving, but mine rarely do and when they do, they get removed from the situation).

“it’s always the people with poorly trained animals living in a home they don’t clean often enough who cop this sort of attitude with everyone.”

Or, people who think animals should be able to behave naturally, within limits, in their own home and who have more important things to do with their lives than do house work

My dogs are well behaved but are not robots who sit, stay, roll over on command. It’s their home too so they are welcome to lay on the sofa. No my house ain’t clean cos, as they say, A clean house is a sign of an empty life. If someone chooses to come to my house then they accept the dog hair (and with five of them I’d have to vacuum hourly for there to be none) or they can go elsewhere!

(Actually, isn’t that part of training them? You need to get them to listen to what you say as you give the command. You train them with treats and make a game out of it. I am proud of my robot dogs. You know why? Because if Dog forbid they get loose somehow, they will sit or stay on command rather than try to cross the busy street or the pathway where the bikers are coming towards them. They will stay “down” when they try to jump in someone (which by the way, they don’t really do anymore because they’ve been “trained”. Yes, that word “trained” … so new, so foreign, and yet …)

Rossy: if you really think it’s appropriate to walk into someone’s house and “point out” that they are lazy because their standards of cleanliness don’t match your own, you seriously need to re-evaluate your social skills.

I’ve seen this reposted on humour/pet sites and in my mailboxes spam filter from well meaning relatives since the internet began….. not the best passive-aggressive note offering, although I do hate forwarded crap.

I am one of those people who has a cat and will not be having kids and I love the cat very much and think it is preferable to a child and yet nothing gives me the creeps more than people who refer to their pets their children. Ugh ugh ugh, it drives me up a wall.

If you love a pet, you should respect its nature as a member of a different species. Considering them your children is less a sign of love than a need to make them over in your image–and that’s not healthy for you or the animal.

So true. Feeding your adult dog the same thing you’d feed a human toddler, for example, won’t give the animal the right kinds of nutrition! (You wouldn’t feed your toddler dog food. Or maybe you would, I don’t know you!) And I’m not saying that people who say “their pets are children” feed them human food, but it stems from the same kind of attitude of wanting them to be like people, thereby denying an adult dog the things an adult dog would need to fulfill them.

Like, carrying them around everywhere if it’s a small dog, which I’ve heard some people do, to protect their precious little paws. That dog needs exercise and would want to develop muscles! They enjoy being active! They’re not babies! Not human babies nor, in many cases, even pups for very long!

That being said, just because someone says “I love them like children” doesn’t necessarily mean they love them AS children. It could be just a thing they say to show how much they love their animal, who they do respect as a member of their own species.

I think of my cats as furry roommates. Just like human roommates, they constantly eat food that I purchase. They never chip in for the utilities, & they use up the TP without replacing the roll. They have noisy dance parties late at night, showing no respect to my need to sleep. I always clean up their crap & they NEVER say thank you.

Here is the Clumber comeback for “ohhh your dogs are just like your children” bs :
“My dogs are family. However, they are not at all like children. If my dog bites your kid, I will put my dog down. If your kid bites my dog….. See? Not the same at all. Now GFY.”

disclaimer: Clumber is by no means suggesting anyone follow this method, though if you wish to you are more than welcome. Clumber cannot be held liable for resulting lost friendships, grumpiness, and delightful lack of visitors in your home

But my kid has never EVER sniffed anyone’s crotch, liked their privates or humped anyone’s leg. And unlike the cat, a kid can be taught to yack into the toilet instead in the middle of the rug. Good and bad in both…

I taught my long-haired cat to hack his hairballs up onto the tile. He just squats at the edge of the carpet with his head over the tile and lets go. So it is possible to train them not to get it on the carpet, if not into the toilet.

None of my animals sniff crotches or hump legs, either. As for licking privates… well, the kids I know all like to scratch/grab/rub/whatever theirs and then sniff/lick their fingers. I’m pretty sure that they’d straight up lick them if they could!

I’d say the biggest advantage for a kid over my pets for me is that a kid wouldn’t be obsessed with my used feminine hygiene products because they wouldn’t know that they smell like “me”.

@Sam: Your cat reminds me of my incredibly considerate bunny. When he’s out because I’m cleaning his cage and he doesn’t have access to his litter box, he’ll only do his business on one specific section of tile, which is super-easy to clean. I did not teach him this, and in fact, he litter-trained himself too. ^^;

@Verge: My cat also brings unwanted friends over, doesn’t clean up the mess he leaves all over the house (he has thumbs, so no excuses!), occasionally shows up at two in the morning drunk and/or high, would rather sleep all day, and only pays attention to me when he’s hungry.

I’ve always theorized that dogs are practice for raising little kids and cats are practice for raising teenagers.

I think a lot of the “my pets are just like children” attitude is a reaction to the misguided houseguest notion that “your pets are just like replaceable inanimate goods.” Sometimes it’s tempting to fawn over the little snotnosed brats just because your cat-hater friends are there to see it.

I agree with the above people who are not into the animal rights “our pets are our kids” nonsense. I’ve left so many pet- related communities because of all this “doggy mommy” “cat-mom” “parent to Fluffy” “monkid” stuff (monkid meaning somebody’s pet monkey) I have a possum and she’s my pet, not my child… I cringe any time people refer to me as her “mommy” uh, no…She was weaned off her momy three and a half years ago and came to me, her owner. As for forwards, I smash chain letters, including pet-related ones, without mercy, but still with at least some class.

People who copy stuff someone else thought up (and pass it off as their own original thought) annoy me.
Hmm… come to think of it, that’s probably also why I hate bumper stickers, t-shirt quotes and greeting cards.

I just realized that all my friends are animal lovers too. I never have to explain or excuse anything. The people who can’t stomach my four pets don’t come to visit. Fine with me. I can’t imagine being true friends with someone who hates animals, and I have no time for phony friendships.

I don’t let my pets climb on people unless they are invited. My dog doesn’t jump up and if she’s begging I send her in the other room.

Now I wish people with little kids who visit could give me the same courtesy. I resent looking after other people’s children in my house because they don’t care what they get into or break in my not-kid-friendly house. Can somebody write a note like this for folks with kids who come to visit?

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